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Tuesday, October 02, 2012
Transfer 2 week 5: wow... time really flies flies flies--
GENERAL CONFERENCE WEEK!!! AHHH!!! :)
Family and Friends!
Wow do I love y'all!!!! Thank you for all the support and
letters and prayers.
So time is short (as usual it seems...) But I wanted to tell
you about some experiences I've had this week. I love being a missionary and I
am so excited!
One is a story Sister C from China told in her talk on
Sunday at Church .It was neat too
because I was able to direct a sister missionary choir and it was really
beautiful, and it was really nice to use my skills and the thing I have studied
all year, and help out with some sisters make their musical number even
better.... little did they know that it was actually my major when they asked!
Cool experience.
She told of (the then) Elder Monson visiting a mission. He
spoke to a missionary from Georgia and asked how his family was. Through the
conversation it turns out that he had been out for 8 months and neither of his
parents had ever written to him. The tearful missionary then asked "Elder
Monson- What should I do?" He thought for a second and really prayed and
asked the Lord, what should I tell this brokenhearted missionary who wrote each
week to his family like he was taught to. He said "Express your love and
gratitude for them, and share some of your inspiring experiences as a
missionary with them, and I promise you that before the end of your mission
they will write you." So the Elder said he would. Elder Monson came back
months later and the missionary approached him and told him this miracle
"I did what you told me to do," and then he pulled out a recent
letter he had received from home. "Dear Son, Your father will be ordained
a Priest soon, and then he will baptize me, and we are excited because in a
year we will fly out to your mission and we will all be sealed as a family in
the closest temple before you come home." Wow.
Sister C had a similar experience on her mission. No one
supported her coming on a mission. Her mom was less active and her dad a non
member... in CHINA. She told us she read this story and took the counsel to
heart. She said that the miracle was, that as soon as she started doing this,
her mother started writing and just a while ago, she found out that her mom
regained activity, and that her Dad was baptized months ago, and that she would
be flying straight into Hong Kong, where they would meet her in a few weeks as
she finishes her mission, and they would be sealed as a family there...
forever. Wow.
I just bawlled when I heard this. This is the Gospel in
action. This is what it is all about, Heavenly Father blessing all of His
children with all that He has in store for them.
Another experience happened this week that I will never
forget. We had a motorcoach of about 47 English from all over the States. We
were paired up with a sister from Australia and 1 from Hawaii, and as they were
explaining the blessings of the Temple and why the pioneers built the SLC
Temple, I happened to look to my left and see none other than Elder Oaks and
Sister Oaks walking right behind us. I could do nothing but smile, and Sister
Oaks waved at us with a knowingly look. Not one of those people in the
motorcoach knew that an Apostle of the Lord, someone who would be speaking for
the Lord in a week, just walked in front of them. It was so neat to be
testifying and to then see Elder Oaks walk behind us as we taught about the
Gospel.
Another cool thing that happened was we taught the 1st
Vision on CHAT this week. So neat! A guy asked us, "So what did Joseph Smith
see?" After we told him about the First Vision, (we can see what they type
before they submit it), we saw the words: "So"......(delete)
"Wow"...... (pause delete) "Umm"... (delete) "So what you're saying is"....
It was cool actually seeing the effect that miraculous Vision had in his
mind... actually seeing the processing of the message. Pretty neat.
AND even though I'm just in my second transfer, I had the
opportunity to take some MTC sisters contacting on the Square. My comp was
from TAIWAN!!!! (Taipei) Wow, we became close friends already. I love her so
much! She has such a bursting testimony and was so excited to share the gospel
and it really pumped me up to! Her favorite phrase all 4 hours was "can we
go talk to them?" ahah she was great! Her name was Sister Tsai and she
will be in the Hawaii Visitor Center. At the end, we talked some more and the
unbelievable thing was: SHE IS A VIOLIN MAJOR at Snow before her mission and
wants to come to BYU! aaaaahhhhh! :) It's neat how the mission connects you to
people you would have never known before and will know/bump into the rest of
your life! (especially here where I see 185 sisters each day all day long all
the time-- it's a lot of estrogen but it's great! There's no place like it!)
So these are some quotes from Sister L that I'd like to
leave you with:
"Times are hard. They will be! But we can choose to
make it harder or we can choose to make it a little bit lighter."
"Darkness and Gloom will only be a short time, and then
the light will come out again- don't worry!"
"Some say it is raining, so it is going to be a bad
day. No!!! You've got your umbrella, and you can still enjoy the rain! And that
way, you'll enjoy the sunshine even more!" - Sister L
I love you all. Prepare for General Conference and keep notes, and
ask Heavenly Father in your mind "What do I need to change, or do better
on, or who can I help?" and then write down all the thoughts that come to
mind throughout the talks. That is actually how I received the inspiration
first to go on a mission.
---Sister Fisher
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